Imogen Leonard, the Road Safety Officer from RBWM came to visit us on Thursday 17th March. Imogen talked the year 4 children through many different road safety risks that they may encounter. The children learnt that 135cm is the legal height to be out of a car seat. All the children were then measured to see what height they were. She also shared Alfie's story and the importance of wearing a helmet when cycling or scooting. Alfie didn't and had to recover in hospital. After having Imogen in to speak with us, we hope that our year 4 children will be following the Green Cross Code when crossing roads, wearing their seat belt in the car and always wearing a helmet when cycling or scooting!

Year 3 had the most fantastic time making pizzas this week! We started off by designing our own boxes and packaging, then tasted a selection of pizzas and toppings to see what we liked best before making our own and evaluating the final products.

Damon said "My favourite part was placing the toppings on the top. My favourite topping was pepperoni and sweetcorn but I didn't like the olives because they were too salty."

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Celine said "I loved everything apart from the cheese! But do I love Margherita!"

What an exciting few weeks it’s been in Year 3!

Last week, we turned the hall into a giant pizzeria and made our own delicious pizzas as part of our technology learning. The children learned about food hygiene and safety, using a knife to cut their desired toppings, a grater to grate cheese for their pizza and rolling out to the desired shape and size. We then moved on to evaluating our pizzas considering what we might do differently in the future.

In topic, we’ve been continuing to learn about the Roman invasion of Britain, considering how this invasion changed life for the Celts. We’re looking forward to our trip to Ufton Court next half term to learn a bit more about this! Our science lessons have seen us exploring the Antarctic, conducting exciting experiments to understand insulation for both humans and animals!

In our English lessons, we have been writing a sequel to the wordless picture book Journey. We loved exploring the imaginative worlds the main character created and look forward to writing about our own.

What a fantastic half term it’s been!

Mrs Lawrence-Davis Y3 Team Leader

It has been a fun filled couple of weeks in year 4 with talent show auditions, the Comical Relief talent show finals, a road safety workshop and making salt dough animals!

In English, we finished our spooky stories; marking them may give the teachers nightmares for weeks! We have now moved onto report writing and are linking this with our science topic about animals and their habitats. So far, the children have created an animal out of salt dough and have been thinking about what adaptations it has to its environment. We will be writing up information about our animal to create a class encyclopaedia all about our wonderful creations!

Our fractions and decimals topic has come to an end in maths. Year 4 have shown such excellent perseverance through some tricky concepts in this topic. This week, as we edge closer to the year 4 Multiplication Tables Check, we have had another focus on learning our times tables. Keep up the hard work on TTRS, year 4, this is really helping you!

Keep up the hard work, year 4!

Mrs Barbosa, Y4 Team Leader